Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen1.5-7B

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 29.6.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Claude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.531.4
Released2024-02-292024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4613

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding12641107
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451065
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-7B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math12731080
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert12231055
MMLU84.6%62.6%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English12581058
LMArena Chinese12481141
LMArena Russian12801006
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following12481058
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query12591090

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text12621083
LMArena Creative Writing12351035
LMArena Multi-Turn12751062
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen1.5-7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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